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English is a Screwy Language

Journal Entry: Sun Sep 28, 2008, 12:47 PM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: Silent Hill - Broken Notes
  • Reading: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Playing: Silent Hill 3
  • Drinking: Jellyfish
This is something I found.
I love it!!!!


THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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We'll start with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox became oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,
But the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse, or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
and give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three may be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, and not cose.

We speak of a brother, and also of brethern,
but though we say mother, we never say metheren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him,
but imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.

Let's face it, English is a screwy language. There is
no egg in eggplant; nor is there ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins
were not invented in England.

But if we explore the paradoxes (paradoxen??), we find
that quicksand can work slowly, boxing and wrestling
rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from
Guinea, nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers
write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce,
and hammers don't ham?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a
humanitarian eat?

If dad is pop, how come mom isn't mop?

In what other language do people recite at a play, and
play at a recital? Ship by truck, and send cargo by
ship? Have noses that run, and feet that smell?
Drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway? How can a
slim chance and a fat chance be the same, when a wise
man and a wiseguy are opposites?


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JOURNAL UPDATE

Journal Entry: Wed Sep 24, 2008, 8:36 PM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: Silent Hill - Broken Notes
  • Reading: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Playing: Silent Hill 3
  • Drinking: Jellyfish
Hello, I'm just updating my journal.
Nothing important.
Life is... well I'm busy as usual.
Got a little more complicated recently...
Anyway, big changes are coming.

Random question: if you had a sandwich of 10 feet x 10 feet, what would you do?


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WASHINGTON DC and MARYLAND, HERE I GO (AGAIN)

Journal Entry: Wed Jul 2, 2008, 3:39 PM
  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: 01 - Mika - Grace Kelly - 1.mp3
  • Playing: Rondo of Blood
  • Drinking: Chocolate
And so I will be visiting the Washington DC and Maryland area for a couple of weeks.
Wanna meet? Yes I'm looking for people who shares the same interests and stuff :)

Send me a private note to talk okay?
Bye thanks!


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I GOT A CONFESSION

Journal Entry: Sun Jun 22, 2008, 9:42 PM
  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: 11. fungiferous flora.mp3
  • Playing: A 12 level Fighter
  • Drinking: Chocolate
I'm actually a Pokemon.
What are you?





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DOCUMENTARY

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 2, 2008, 11:49 PM
  • Mood: Wow!
  • Listening to: No Evil
  • Reading: Wicked
  • Playing: A 12 level Fighter
  • Eating: My words
Okay, so I saw this documentary movie -free online- and it's incredibly good.
[link]
Make sure you got some time, totally worth it.
Oh yes, is not for everyone because it's powerful material.
:)

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